I didn’t know about the experiment, so I went to read the charter and came back to read this.
What struck me after reading the charter was “How will these people find the time?”
I ran a quick computation, and it turns out that after work and sleep, I have 7 hours left in my day (which, given I sleep 8 hours might be conservative by US standards). Accounting that some stuff just has to be done (hygiene, ya know), the 3 hours that one should theoretically dedicate to house stuff every day is half of your remaining time. Everything else you care about must fit in that three other hours. Seems tiny to me.
So was it the case that people were starved for time? Was it a cause of “soft-defection”?
So was it the case that people were starved for time? Was it a cause of “soft-defection”?
At least one person in the house had expressed interest, and then before the house started took on additional constraints on their time, and so found themselves in this awkward bind where they could make time for the mandatory things, but just the mandatory things, and this was not quite in the spirit of the thing. (Most of the time when people were in ‘black knight’ roles, it was because of this sort of thing.)
I think this was comparatively small; I think the red knights caused more trouble by adding friction to the system that slowed everything down (not just the stuff that they pushed back again, but also all the other things that didn’t happen because Duncan or others were paying attention to the pushback instead of building other things).
I didn’t know about the experiment, so I went to read the charter and came back to read this.
What struck me after reading the charter was “How will these people find the time?”
I ran a quick computation, and it turns out that after work and sleep, I have 7 hours left in my day (which, given I sleep 8 hours might be conservative by US standards). Accounting that some stuff just has to be done (hygiene, ya know), the 3 hours that one should theoretically dedicate to house stuff every day is half of your remaining time. Everything else you care about must fit in that three other hours. Seems tiny to me.
So was it the case that people were starved for time? Was it a cause of “soft-defection”?
At least one person in the house had expressed interest, and then before the house started took on additional constraints on their time, and so found themselves in this awkward bind where they could make time for the mandatory things, but just the mandatory things, and this was not quite in the spirit of the thing. (Most of the time when people were in ‘black knight’ roles, it was because of this sort of thing.)
I think this was comparatively small; I think the red knights caused more trouble by adding friction to the system that slowed everything down (not just the stuff that they pushed back again, but also all the other things that didn’t happen because Duncan or others were paying attention to the pushback instead of building other things).